Edgar Arceneaux is fascinated by language, and by establishing unexpected connections among words, objects, places, and people. His installations may incorporate not only drawing, sculpture, and film, but also music, conceptual art, and science, juxtaposing representative elements of each and opening up newfound associations, unintended connections and interstitial spaces—in his words, “a different way to construct relationships among things.” Arceneaux was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, where he continues to live and work. He currently serves on the board of the Watts House Project, an “ongoing, collaborative artwork in the shape of a neighborhood redevelopment” across from the historic Watts Towers in Los Angeles; he has been working on the WHP since 1996. He has had solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Albion Gallery, London; and Galerie Kamm, Berlin. He received a BFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, and is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles.

2013The Shadows Took Shape, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NYArt Sheffield 2013: Zero Hours, Site Gallery, Sheffield, EnglandThe Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, GermanyBald Eagle, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, GermanyYou Should've Heard Just What I Seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, Cape Cod, MAThe Armory Show and Tell, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CAPerhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OHHook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NVSelections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CAEtched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, ALApproximately Infinite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

2012my.LA, haubrokshows, Sammlung-Haubrok, Berlin, GermanyPairings, The Collection at 50, The Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CAMutatis Mutandis, Secession, Vienna, AustriaMarking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia